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Re: apt 0.6 in experimental



On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:04:54PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> An old issue that resurfaced, now that APT 0.6 entered Testing:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:33 -0800, mdz wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 23:38, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > > Oh. Also, you're expected to have entries for the md5sum & size
> > > > of the uncompressed Packages files *even if you only distribute the
> > > > compressed versions*. That's quite important for debootstrap's caching,
> > > > and possibly apt's.
> > apt-ftparchive probably ought to automate this,

(a) apt-ftparchive definitely ought to automate this; it's not
outputting correctly formatted Release files if not. :)

> > but for now, it's easiest to
> > just keep an uncompressed Packages file around.  Then, apt-ftparchive will
> > add an entry for it to Release automagically.
> I would rather avoid keeping an uncompressed Packages file around, thus
> I would really be grateful if apt-ftparchive did the above on its own.

(b) You could get apt to generate them, and the Release file, then rm
them manually. "find dists/ -name Packages | xargs rm" :)

Cheers,
aj

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